Homer, Iliad 22 – 328
He was eyeing Hector’s splendid body, to see where it might best give way, but all the rest of the skin was help in armour. brazen and splendid, he stripped when he cut down the strength of Patroclus; yet showed where the collarbones hold the neck form the shoulders, the throat, where death of the soul comes most swiftly; in this place brilliant Achilles drove the spear as her came on in fury, and clean through the soft part of the neck the spearpoint was driven.
Yet the ash spear heavy with bronze did not sever the windpipe, so that Hector could still make exchange of words spoken.
But he dropped in the dust, and brilliant Achilles vaunted above him:
“Hector, surely you thought as you killed Partoclus you would be safe, and since I was far away you thought nothing o me, o fool, for an avenger was left, far greater then he was, behind him and away by the hollow ships. And it was I; and I have broken tour strength’ on you the dogs and the vultures shall feed and foully rip you: the Achanians will bury Partoclus.”
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